The new directive calls for stricter action against anyone involved in illegal wildlife trading Vietnam’s prime minister, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, issued a new directive last week that bans most wildlife ...

Vietnam is an essential travel destination for anyone interested in unique wildlife. In fact, hundreds of new species have been discovered here in the last 30 years alone. Vietnam wildlife is rare and ...

By Carolyn Cowan Furry, feisty, and often on the wing, bats are tricky to observe, let alone to protect. Some species ...

LONDON, UK, November 28, 2021 (ENS) – Vietnam needs international help to disrupt the operations of Vietnamese-led wildlife crime syndicates active in Africa and Asia. Despite government efforts to ...

Vietnam has announced it will ban wildlife imports and close wildlife markets in response to renewed concerns about the threat from diseases that can jump from animals to humans, such as the virus ...

Vietnam has been a popular destination for wildlife products — often from endangered species — that are used in traditional medicine or in preparing exotic cuisine. The move comes amid increased ...

Vietnam, one of Asia's biggest consumers of wildlife products, has suspended all imports of wild animal species "dead or alive" and vowed to "eliminate" illegal markets across the country. The ...

Vietnam would halt importing and trading wild animals either dead or alive, according to a directive from Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc issued Thursday. The country would stop importing wild animals ...

An expert rues that Vietnam's fight against wildlife trafficking is weakened by the perspective that it’s a less serious, ‘victimless crime.’ This viewpoint makes it a relatively low risk, high return ...

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- A conservation group ranked Vietnam the worst country for wildlife crime Monday in its first-ever report on how well 23 Asian and African countries protect rhinos, tigers and ...

A conservationist holds up a Central Vietnamese flowerback box turtle (Bourret's box turtle) at a sanctuary in Cuc Phuong national park in Ninh Binh province, Vietnam. AP HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnam ...